Since the introduction of Conceptual Art in contemporary art, through rigorous collection and analysis of vast amounts of information, an artist, as much as one is an individual, has come to the position oneself as a representative of the phenomena of the times. Following such conditions, an exhibition space has evolved into a conceptual space. Here, art material does not merely imply the artist’s information, but it also works as an integrated messenger covering the era, social environment, history, and the everyday lives of people.
In this exhibition, through Bibliothèque : A Library of Folding and Unfolding, we propose an extensity created not just by the exhibition, but also the research on art, exploring the investigation on the creation and withering of materials harbored by the exhibition space and the preservation of such. The subtitle of the exhibition, A Library of Folding and Unfolding, implies that folding and unfolding of information are not of contrary nature, but one of mutual flexibility. As folding and unfolding are not contrary concepts, this calls for an infinity where folding is followed by another folding, like the way one a part of a line is not a dot.

Going beyond the question of “What is Bibliothèque?,” this is an experimental exhibition looking into the true function of an exhibition space as an instrument in today’s art world. We will explore the various roles and possibilities and the time of possibility offered by the space of the gallery through this experiment. The exhibition serves as a procedure for throwing out questions and finding answers on the nature of the exhibition space beyond just a mere space to display artists’ works, on what such space collects and preserves this information, and on how some information to be preserved.